Amateur Wine Makers To Compete

FAMILIAR FACES

July 17, 1998|By NANCY SMYTH LASTRINA Nancy Smyth Lastrina, an Enfield native, collects news about residents of north central Connecticut for this column, which appears on Tuesdays and Fridays.

The Enfield Mount Carmel Society will be introducing its first Amateur Wine-Making Competition as a new feature of the society's 73rd annual Enfield Italian Festival.

Wine makers from around the region can submit their homemade wine for competition. There will be three categories -- red, white and fruit -- which will be judged on the basis of taste, color and character. Prizes will be awarded, and ribbons will be presented for first, second and third place in each category.

The head judge will be Gene Spaziani, director of hospitality programs at Gateway Community- Technical College in New Haven.

Serving locally on the wine competition committee are Joseph Petronella, honorary feast chairman; Brad and Rosanna Davis and Nick Giaccone, chairman of the competition. It is being sponsored by Figaro's Restaurant of Enfield.

The wine-making competition takes place during the four-day annual festival on Aug. 1 at 6 p.m. under the tent at the fairgrounds on Park Avenue.

For more information or to register, call Giaccone at (860) 627-8811 or (860) 623-6908. Preregistration is required, and the deadline to enter is July 24.

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The Enfield Soccer Club has announced the winner of its recent ``Design-a-Patch'' contest, which was held last month throughout the Enfield public schools.

This year's winner was Danielle Gallagher, a student at John F. Kennedy Middle School. She was recently presented with a framed copy of her winning design and will receive a $50 U.S. savings bond, several patches with her design, and two T-shirts displaying her winning design.

This year's contest was the largest to date. The club acknowledges its appreciation to Janice MacArthur, art coordinator at JFK, and to Joyce Frangiamore, art coordinator at Hazardville Memorial School, for their work.

The club will be selling the tournament T-shirts at the Kevin Barmak Memorial Soccer Tournament scheduled for Sept. 5 and 6 at the Mark Twain Sports Complex, Asnuntuck Community-Technical College and the Shaker Road Sports Complex.

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The following local residents were recently awarded degrees from American International College in Springfield, Mass.: Kimberly Scofield of Ellington; Lori Boghosian, Joy Bostick, Jessica Bourgault, Roseann Capanna-Hodge, Donna Chasse, Aurora Contrino, Nancy Davis, Noelle Harding, Barbara Lynch, Joan Zielinski and Laura Hendsey, all of Enfield; Amy Calabro and Timothy Vantasel, both of Somers; Marvin Stigter of Stafford Springs; Lynda Gardocki and Marcy Matyskiela, both of Suffield, and Nicole Albano and William Schnepp, both of Windsor Locks.

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Marc Holtzman, a Suffield Rotary Club member, was recently honored with a Paul Harris Fellowship, the Rotary's highest honor, at recent installation ceremonies for new officers.

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The Gensi-Viola Post No. 36 American Legion of Windsor Locks received four state awards and an individual award at the 80th American Legion Department Convention held recently in Cromwell.

The post received the following awards: the Arthur E. Daly trophy for the most outstanding accomplishments toward all phases of Americanism within the department; the William Mager plaque awarded to the post for sponsoring the most unusual program in the field of children and youth -- the Arbor Day program; the Charles J. Majewski plaque awarded to the post judged to have the most all- inclusive activities program in the state, and the Hugh C. Graham plaque awarded to the post for the most outstanding and diversified public relations programs to promote the best interest of all American Legion programs.

In addition, an individual award was presented to Stanley T. Wieliczka, post historian, for submitting one of the best overall post scrapbooks for the past year.

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The Enfield Food Shelf has a boat docked at the Enfield Public Library through the end of the month. Items needed to fill the boat include paper goods, detergent, soap, toothbrushes, cereal, pasta, sauce, soups, canned meat and peanut butter. Baby items needed include baby food, disposable diapers, baby powder and shampoo.